{"id":49731,"date":"2026-08-17T02:35:31","date_gmt":"2026-08-16T21:35:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/?p=49731"},"modified":"2026-08-17T02:35:31","modified_gmt":"2026-08-16T21:35:31","slug":"trump-tells-hegseth-to-cut-u-s-south-korea-drills","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/?p=49731","title":{"rendered":"Trump tells Hegseth to cut U.S.-South Korea drills"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><script>\r\n  atOptions = {\r\n    'key' : '644b717812d811d6a1c1fc5b6ccd6fa6',\r\n    'format' : 'iframe',\r\n    'height' : 90,\r\n    'width' : 728,\r\n    'params' : {}\r\n  };\r\n<\/script>\r\n<script src=\"https:\/\/www.highperformanceformat.com\/644b717812d811d6a1c1fc5b6ccd6fa6\/invoke.js\"><\/script>\r\n<br \/>\n<br \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/images.axios.com\/UNjgjJC7xWfknRrU_qmSTXMSNPY=\/0x228:5365x3246\/1366x768\/2026\/08\/16\/1786915021238.jpeg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>President <a href=\"https:\/\/www.axios.com\/politics-policy\/donald-trump\" target=\"_blank\">Trump<\/a> said Sunday he instructed Defense Secretary <a href=\"https:\/\/www.axios.com\/2026\/08\/04\/hegseth-defense-funding-reconciliation\" target=\"_blank\">Pete Hegseth<\/a> to &#8220;substantially reduce&#8221; U.S. military exercises with South Korea.<\/p>\n<p><strong>The big picture: <\/strong>Trump <a href=\"https:\/\/truthsocial.com\/%40realDonaldTrump\/posts\/117107215379637520\" target=\"_blank\">wrote<\/a> on Truth Social that South Korea declined his request to help the U.S. denuclearize <a href=\"https:\/\/www.axios.com\/world\/iran\" target=\"_blank\">Iran<\/a> and cited his &#8220;very good relationship&#8221; with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un.<\/p>\n<p><em>Editor&#8217;s note: This is a breaking news story. Please check back for updates.<\/em><\/p>\n<script async=\"async\" data-cfasync=\"false\" src=\"https:\/\/pl30214220.effectivecpmnetwork.com\/9ab3d4df8a7e1a6171e16ddbf732cc19\/invoke.js\"><\/script>\r\n<div id=\"container-9ab3d4df8a7e1a6171e16ddbf732cc19\"><\/div>\r\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President Trump said Sunday he instructed Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth to &#8220;substantially reduce&#8221; U.S. military exercises with South Korea. The big picture: Trump wrote on Truth Social that South Korea declined his request to help the U.S. denuclearize Iran and cited his &#8220;very good relationship&#8221; with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un. Editor&#8217;s note: This&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":49732,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/images.axios.com\/UNjgjJC7xWfknRrU_qmSTXMSNPY=\/0x228:5365x3246\/1366x768\/2026\/08\/16\/1786915021238.jpeg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-49731","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-political-news"],"brizy_media":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49731","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=49731"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49731\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/49732"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=49731"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=49731"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=49731"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}